Where Trump now complains about why and what can help him

In which states Trump is suing and what can help him

The rush to the White House is near. Trump’s once-proud leadership in many fluctuating states is melting dramatically due to “absent votes.” These are votes that were not cast in the polls on the day of the election itself, for example, postal votes. In Wisconsin and Michigan, the pendulum has turned. Challenger Joe Biden was officially named the winner after a rigorous run to recover.

The reaction from Donald Trump and his team was immediate. Trump has already cryptically threatened Wednesday: “We will ignite the Supreme Court. We want all electoral processes to be stopped. “His campaign manager Bill Stepien later suggested the same niche:” If we count all the legal votes, we win. “What he doesn’t explicitly mention, but wants to say: there are also illegal rumors .

Trump’s team announced in Wisconsin tells to organize. In the Rust Belt state, this is allowed if the difference in votes is less than one percent. This condition is satisfied. Biden won with 0.6 percentage points or 21,000 votes.

Trump tried on Wednesday Stop counts in Michigan. But without success. After the president led by over eight percentage points at times, Biden secured the 16 voters with 130,000 votes or 2.5 percentage points.

Even in Pennsylvania, which has not yet been fully counted, the president is trying to interfere with the counting process, especially to shorten deadlines. Trump’s attorney Rudi Giuliani and Eric Trump, the eldest son, said Republicans were denied access to the polling stations in Philadelphia and that the votes of the dead were also counted there. They have not provided any evidence to support their claims.

Electoral Representative Al Schmidt of Philadelphia contradicts: “Two groups of both teams control the counting process. You are at a safe distance, but in the same room. “Al Schmidt is a Republican.

In Georgia Trump is demanding that ballot papers coming in at a later date be resolved and that the names of the voters and the time of their arrival be noted. This is the protocol and it is ignored. Local Republicans have promised to take legal action in various constituencies and have already taken action. On Wednesday in Savannah they filed a lawsuit against 53 votes, believed to have arrived too late.

Does McConnel’s strategy work?

Particularly interesting in this context: no president before Trump has appointed judges so frequently. Trump raised no fewer than 220 judges (Article III judges). Barack Obama invented more (329), but in eight years.

Appointing as many conservative judges as possible is part of Mitch McConnel’s strategy. The Senate Majority Leader has ensured that Barack Obama will have to leave various vacancies. The judges must be confirmed by the Senate – and this confirmation was rejected by the Republican-dominated Senate.

The example of the 2000 presidential election shows that the judges have their influence on the elections: according to an official count, the two opponents Al Gore and George Bush separated only 1,784 votes – in favor of Bush. This small margin triggered an automatic recount under Florida law. During this recount, Bush’s lead narrowed to less than a thousand votes. In the course of the accounts a political bickering began on how and where to tell. The political one has turned into legal. Eventually, the Supreme Court decided to end the Republican recount. Al Gore accepted and lost the elections with the extremely narrow result of 271-268 electoral votes.

A few days ago, Donald Trump appointed Amy Coney Barrett, a Conservative judge on the Supreme Court. He replaced the liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg there. With the appointment of Coney Barrett, the balance of power is clear. Six judges are considered conservative, only three are liberals.

It is not yet clear how many states will be reported this year. The small differences between the states of Nevada and Arizona also suggest that ballot papers could be pulled out of the boxes there as well.